Wave of Apple Generative AI Tools on Track for WWDC Debut

[dante_mr]

Hope they keep working on stuff they introduce, instead of introducing just for introduction. Dynamic Island is an amazing piece of creative solution which was applauded but abandoned and nothing great has come to fruition.

The Dynamic Island is honestly really great and a creative step towards under-screen tech.

They basically turned a "weakness" into a strength by playing with the punch-hole's design. It's subtle but wonderful.

When I owned a Galaxy S10, that's exactly what I was hoping Samsung would do with the punch hole, but instead you had to download third party apps to have that feature, and none of them did it well.

 

[tubuliferous]

Fitness plus as an individual personal trainer. Using my iPhone camera and my watch sensors to measure and correct my workouts and giving support.

I also want a feature that shames my body while I exercise. 😁

Seriously though, your idea sounds like a cool application of AI.

 

[tubuliferous]

But will it be it mine cryptocurrency while being secured with blockchain? Oops wrong “overhyped technological” fad

Fad? Accessible generative AI is brand new and is already revolutionizing every field it touches. This isn't some promise of future utility...generative AI is shockingly useful right now.

 

[tubuliferous]

Meh, my life has been good without “AI” and I don’t see the benefit for myself…
Maybe rather than waiting for iPhone 16 which will force iOS 18 onto me I’ll get a 15 and stay on ios17…

I thought the same thing about the Internet about 25 years ago...

If you're talking about AI in general, you're already using it all the time. If you're talking about the sort of generative AI referenced in the article, this will soon become so embedded in our civilization that it will be difficult to extricate ourselves from it. Whether that will be good of humanity...well, that depends on the choices we make now.

🇺🇦

 

[Chuckeee]

Fad? Accessible generative AI is brand new and is already revolutionizing every field it touches. This isn't some promise of future utility...generative AI is shockingly useful right now.

I thought the same thing about the Internet about 25 years ago...

I heard the same thing about cryptocurrency and blockchain about 12 years ago...

 

[picpicmac]

And what’s the inevitable conclusion of all this “progress”?

 

[Realityck]

Jan 7th
This morning in breaking news, Brett Adcock CEO of Figure Robotics, dropped a mind-blowing demo showing that their Figure 01 robot can now do end-to-end AI training. This demo of the bot now able to make coffee is just one of many applications that they are promising the bot can do.

 

[ellocoescoces]

Jan 7th
This morning in breaking news, Brett Adcock CEO of Figure Robotics, dropped a mind-blowing demo showing that their Figure 01 robot can now do end-to-end AI training. This demo of the bot now able to make coffee is just one of many applications that they are promising the bot can do.

A very cool but also disturbing video given that the most concerning area of AI isn’t some simple software autocorrecting your typos and helping us to code, edit photos or movies or have more intelligent search, it’s about semi or even fully autonomous military vehicles and aircraft and where we go from there!
Check out “Unknown: Killer Robots” on Netflix

Watch Unknown: Killer Robots | Netflix Official Site

What happens when a machine makes life-or-death decisions? This documentary explores the dangers of artificial intelligence in military application.

www.netflix.com

 

[mdriftmeyer]

Just make it optional and configurable for the end user.

 

[daabido]

Have you tried ChatGPT? It puts Siri to such absolute shame that the only thing for Apple to do at this point is upgrade Siri to the same technology, or disable it entirely.

For many years now Siri has been a joke, stuck at its exact same level of initial functionality. In the last year the difference between that and actual useful AI has become so stark as to be embarrassing.

It’s been embarrassing since basically shortly after release, but now it’s to the point that Siri feels absolutely broken and useless, even more-so by comparison to something that actually works.

It is a victim, as are many other Apple products, of abandonware. Developers would rather work on the sexy new features rather than iteratively improve the existing features. Until they overcome this internal historical cultural deficit, you will continue to see flashy new, improved marginally but nowhere as good as it could be, flashy, new, improved marginally...

Siri is beyond redemption at this stage.

 

[Bodhitree]

I think as usual Apple will have watched carefully what Microsoft, Google and Samsung are doing in the generative AI space, and will do a “second pass” effort in which they take note of what does and what doesn’t work. It’s not about being first, it is about being best.

 

[ric22]

I think as usual Apple will have watched carefully what Microsoft, Google and Samsung are doing in the generative AI space, and will do a “second pass” effort in which they take note of what does and what doesn’t work. It’s not about being first, it is about being best.

There's also such a thing as getting left behind...

Why do you think Apple have been buying so many AI companies? Their internal investment seems comparatively limited compared to their opposition.

 

[michelb76]

Expectations so great that this can only disappoint.

 

[ThunderSkunk]

I dont need ai to do what i can already do well enough myself. I need ai to take terrible quality films from the old days, whose original masters were destroyed in fires or lost, and reference enough still photos of the people and places found in any given scene to construct a new high definition scene matching the set, objects, lighting, subjects and their movements of in place of the poor quality old one. let us see the moving images of Buster Keaton and the Marx Bros and Magritte and Pink Floyd and Stacey Donovan and my dead relatives in beautiful sharp focus & full color. Thats all i want an ai tool to do, and it shouldn’t be too far off.

 

[Oestreich Dieter]

I want to be able to set up multi step automations and shortcuts by just speaking what I want it to do. I read somewhere before that will be one of the features....fingers crossed.

 

[CarAnalogy]

It is a victim, as are many other Apple products, of abandonware. Developers would rather work on the sexy new features rather than iteratively improve the existing features. Until they overcome this internal historical cultural deficit, you will continue to see flashy new, improved marginally but nowhere as good as it could be, flashy, new, improved marginally...

Siri is beyond redemption at this stage.

Not only that but it turns out they bought a dud in the first place. They almost got duped. Siri made a great demo and then when they got into the internals of it they found the way it was designed was impossible to improve without a total rewrite. Which they obviously never did.

Reminds me of the Intel cellular modem division acquisition.

But now having used ChatGPT I want Siri to do that and also be able to control my phone. The technology exists now, they just need to use it. And not lock it behind hardware upgrades.

 

[Kingcoherent]

I thought the same thing about the Internet about 25 years ago...

If you're talking about AI in general, you're already using it all the time. If you're talking about the sort of generative AI referenced in the article, this will soon become so embedded in our civilization that it will be difficult to extricate ourselves from it. Whether that will be good of humanity...well, that depends on the choices we make now.

🇺🇦

Some applications will be useful, others less so. And more will turn out to be ethically dubious (e.g. trained on stolen IP). However, unlike bitcoin/blockchain, it is undeniably a highly valuable tool that will revolutionise huge areas of how we live.

The comparison with the internet is a good one. It too was an evolutionary step from previous networking technologies (in particular the web as compared to BBSs), but it paved the way for a tipping point of adoption. As a practitioner (I'd usually describe myself as working with machine learning rather than AI), I see current general of AI as a small increment from previous techniques, but one that has a huge improvement in utility. LLMs in particular are just sequence predictors, not too dissimilar in concept to spell checkers of five years back. However, they have significantly more predictive power.

My prediction for 2024 is that this year will see huge steps in local model adoption (i.e. running on device, rather than in a large. cloud server). This includes robotics and personal computers/phones.